OTTO – a musical theatre piece for cello, OTTO and live-electronics

Summer 2014. One step back: 4 years ago and 100 years after the beginning of World War I.
At this point, I am alone with my childhood memories and an idea: telling the story of OTTO, a WWI soldier creating beauty out of nothing in dark times: an instrument, a companion, a peculiarly shaped cello.

Growing with OTTO over the past 52 months was quite a journey: many breakdowns, disappointments, failures … but I was always convinced that this journey was worth continuing.

Autumn 2018. 100 years after the end of WWI.
Right now, OTTO is everywhere – in my thoughts, before my eyes, in the books I’m reading, in the films I’m watching, in the music I’m listening to, in the persons I’m meeting. I have lived four years with OTTO, now it’s time for him to enter the stage.